DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER.

"No," Andromeda cried out, seeing her father disown her older sister.

"No," Narcissa gasped, tears in her eyes.

There was silence, a hateful one as everyone looked upon the scene.

And then, it was broken, but in a much unexpected way.

No one was expecting Abhimanyu to suddenly lash out and punch Cygnus Black in his face, sending him to the floor.

"HOW DARE YOU," Abhimanyu yelled even as he glared dangerously at Cygnus.

Walburga screamed, "HOW DARE YOU ATTACK A MOST HONORABLE MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF BLACK!"

Abhimanyu yelled, "He deserved it!"

Cygnus got up and yelled, "YOU! HOW DARE YOU COME HERE! YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO SET YOUR LUSTFUL EYES UPON MY DAUGHTER!"

Abhimanyu yelled, "LUSTFUL?! WHO TOLD YOU THAT?"

Cygnus spoke up, "I know about you, how you meddled with my daughters' affairs and…"

Hewson suddenly stepped forward and yelled, "CYGNUS, I'M TELLING YOU, THIS BOY DESERVES AZKABAN! HOW DARE HE TRY TO FRAME MY DAUGHTER! HOW DARE HE STEAL YOUR OLDEST DAUGHTER!"

He then sneered, "Or should I say, ex-daughter, girlfriend of a disgrace to the magical world?"

Abhimanyu suddenly yelled, "SHUT UP! DON'T YOU DARE INSULT HER LIKE THAT!"

Walburga suddenly yelled, "YOU HAVE POLLUTED THIS HOUSE ENOUGH BY YOUR…"

"ENOUGH," a female voice suddenly yelled out.

And every single person in the room stared at Bellatrix, who had just yelled at Walburga with her hands raised up in the air, and was lowering them.

"This family is polluted enough already," Bellatrix spoke, "You all pollute the atmosphere of this house with blind hatred, prejudice. This hatred has been in this house for ages. You, Aunt Walburga, condone the murder of innocents by the Dark Lord, but when I want to be with one who is noble, despite being a Muggleborn, you object?! You, Father, see it fit to call me a disgrace, and even forcibly marry me off to a Death Eater, and Mother, you see it fit to just stand by and support him and push my sisters and me when it comes to…"

"ENOUGH," Cygnus suddenly cut her off, and hissed, "How dare you disrespect your elders in this manner you ungrateful…"

Abhimanyu suddenly stepped forward and spoke, "You deserved it."

Druella suddenly spoke up, "How dare you talk to my husband like this! Have you no shame you selfish wretch? You are a common Muggleborn and are unworthy of…"

"STOP IT," Bellatrix suddenly yelled, "ABHIMANYU IS TEN TIMES THE MAN THAT RODOLPHUS IS! HE'S KIND, KINDER THAN RODOLPHUS! HE WOULDN'T GIVE UP TRYING TO BE MY FRIEND! AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT? EVEN THOUGH I SNEERED AT HIM FOR SIX YEARS, HE STILL CAME AND SAVED MY SISTER WHEN SHE NEEDED HELP!"

There was silence as many simply stared in shock.

And then, Abhimanyu spoke, "Love doesn't discriminate between caste and creed. Love is not meant to be limited by purity of blood or the fairness of skin. I may be nothing but a filthy Mudblood in your opinion, but I can tell you this. I love your daughter and I would die for her if I had to."

Hewson sneered, "Ex-daughter you mean, all thanks to you, you filthy…"

Abhimanyu suddenly punched Hewson in the face, sending him to the floor yelling, "THIS IS FOR WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR OWN STEPSON, COLLIN SAUNDERS! YOU THINK YOU CAN INTERFERE IN THESE KINDS OF MATTERS? I KNOW VERY WELL THAT YOUR DAUGHTER IS A FOLLOWER OF VOLDEMORT! YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO FATHERKIND! MY FATHER MAY BE A MUGGLE, BUT HE WOULD NEVER ABUSE ME LIKE HOW YOU ABUSED COLLIN!"

The onlookers, even Richardson and his apprentice were too shocked by what had just happened, too frozen to say anything; so frozen that no one noticed Sirius some distance away, giving Abhimanyu double thumbs up.

Just then, a slim woman with long black hair, elegantly dressed in a blue gown and wearing a wide rimmed pink hat stepped out of the crowd and harshly cried out, "How dare you attack my husband you accursed boy!"

Abhimanyu looked at her and asked sternly, "Are you Hewson's wife?"

The woman replied arrogantly, "It is Lady Macready Leverge to you, disrespectful…"

Abhimanyu cut her off saying, "You're one to talk. You don't deserve respect from anyone, after what you've done. You think you're high and powerful, but your nothing but cruel. You never showed any affection to your own son! You made it quite clear that you had no love for him. You treated Collin like he was nothing but a burden, something my mother would never ever do!"

Macready shouted, "Your Muggle mother is nothing but a bitch who…"

But before she could continue, Abhimanyu suddenly yelled in her face even as Bellatrix slapped her, "DON'T YOU DARE INSULT MY MOTHER! SHE MAY BE A MUGGLE, BUT SHE DOESN'T FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF NEGLIGENT CRUEL MOTHERS WHO ABANDON THEIR OWN CHILDREN OR TREAT THEM LIKE FILTH!"

Just then, a very familiar young woman around Bellatrix's age stepped out of crowd and glaring at Abhimanyu, she shouted, "How dare you attack my father, insult my stepmother and try to steal Bellatrix away from her rightful husband and turn her against us, you Mudblood!"

For the first time, Richardson spoke up, "Watch your language. And by the way, who are you?"

Abhimanyu turned to Richardson and said, "This is Avril Leverge, I'm telling you…"

Richardson said, "I get it, I get it."

He then softly spoke, "We have to leave this place. We should settle this fast."

Abhimanyu nodded.

Andromeda, having been released a while ago, watched with a half satisfied expression as Richardson turned to Avril and spoke sternly, "Miss Leverge, I'll have to take you to the Ministry. You have some questions to answer."

"What?" Macready yelled.

Hewson yelled, even as Richardson's apprentice began to move towards Avril, "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT OVER MY DAUGHTER! I'LL BE SPEAKING TO THE MINISTER ABOUT THIS!"

And then suddenly, a cold, sinister voice hissed, "That shall not be necessary, Mr. Leverge."

Abhimanyu, Bellatrix, Richardson and his apprentice turned around to see who had spoken, and gasped when they saw the figure before them.

It was none other than the real Lord Voldemort.

"So," Lord Voldemort spoke, "You tried to impersonate me yourself, hoping you could whisk away your precious girl, didn't you? You are a fool to try to impersonate the Dark Lord himself."

Abhimanyu looked at Voldemort in horror and gasped, "You knew?!"

Voldemort replied, "You see, I can be called by any of my followers, and to be honest, I quite expected you would try to stop this union between Bellatrix Black and Rodolphus Lestrange, but, I have to admit, not like this."

He then looked at Bellatrix and spoke, "As for you Bellatrix, it is a shame that you would prefer one born of Muggles over a noble pureblood such as Lestrange. Toujours Pur, always pure, the Black family has been. I have heard of your talent but you have never even come to me. Come, it is not too late, join me, be more than just a simple auror, like that son of Muggle, weak, Pandey."

Bellatrix glared at the Dark Lord and spoke, "Pandey is not as weak as you think. I once was interested in getting to know you and perhaps join you, but everything changed, all because of this man whom you despise and who stood up to you. He did something I never expected. Despite the fact that I sneered at him for six years, put it in his face that he was beneath me, was unworthy of being my friend, that he was nothing but a Muggleborn, a Mudblood to be more precise, laughing when Rodolphus Lestrange and his friends pushed him to the ground and called him that word, despite all that, with no hesitation, he saved my sister Andromeda from being raped and stood up for us several times! You call him weak, but you are wrong. Just yesterday, Abhimanyu Pandey stood up to you, held you off!"

Voldemort bellowed, "He fell by my hand, and would have died had the aurors and Dumbledore not arrived on time. Fear and love will bind you! Understand this, leave him and join me. Don't be a fool, or else…"

Abhimanyu suddenly pulled out his wand and said, "Do not touch her, Voldemort."

Voldemort looked at him and snarled, slowly raising his wand, "What will you do? Kill me? You have no chance of even surviving against me. I let you go once, but this time I shall not…"

Bellatrix suddenly pulled out her wand and declared, "If you kill him, you'll have to kill me too."

Voldemort looked at the pair, stunned and said, "Is this your final decision?"

Bellatrix looked at Abhimanyu, and then at her sisters who were nodding their heads.

And then, she said, "I love Abhimanyu. And I will fight by his side against you, even if I have to die for him."

Abhimanyu added, "I'd rather die for you first."

Bellatrix turned to him and with a glare, she whispered, "I will not leave you like I did last time. If we are to die, then we shall die together."

Abhimanyu moved closer to her side and whispered, "Stand together, fight together, and we shall survive, or die like Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, did on the battlefield, fighting bravely against evil."

Voldemort hissed, "Then the House of Black is no longer pure. Shame, shame, shame on this family."

He raised his wand, ready to cast a curse, but suddenly, was forced to deflect two spells that suddenly came at him.

Abhimanyu and Bellatrix looked around and saw the ones who had cast those two spells, Richardson and his apprentice.

"GO," Richardson yelled, "TAKE MS. BLACK AND RUN! WE'LL FIGHT HIM!"

All of a sudden, Walburga shrieked, "KILL THAT FOUL MUDBLOOD, DO IT NOW!"

Abhimanyu and Bellatrix turned around with their wands raised, and began to deflect some incoming spells from some of those gathered.

Abhimanyu turned around and saw Rodolphus raising his wand yelling, "YOU NIGGER OF A MUDBLOOD, I AM GOING TO END YOU, ONCE AND FOR ALL! AVADA KEDAVRA!"

Abhimanyu instantly ducked and luckily, the lethal green bolt of light shot overhead, but he heard it hit someone.

He turned around and saw what had happened.

Macready was standing there, with a shocked, angry, horrified look on her face, frozen, or rather, lifeless.

The curse had struck her instead of him.

Abhimanyu looked at her, and then at Rodolphus who was staring with a horrified expression on his face.

And then suddenly, he heard Hewson shouting, "GET THAT BOY! HE'S THE MURDERER!"

He turned around to face Hewson but the latter suddenly shouted, "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Suddenly, Abhimanyu found himself being pulled down even as a female voice cried out, "CRUCIO!"

Hewson fell to the ground on his back, screaming in pain.

Abhimanyu turned to his left and saw the one who had pulled him down in the nick of time, and was now kneeling, and getting up, holding Hewson under the curse.

It was none other than Bellatrix, with a look of pure rage in her eyes.

Even as Hewson screamed on, Abhimanyu suddenly got up and held Bellatrix's wand arm crying out, "BELLA NO!"

Bellatrix turned to Abhimanyu and angrily shouted, "He tried to end your life just now!"

Abhimanyu spoke, "But this is an illegal curse! You could get…"

"I DON"T CARE!" Bellatrix yelled.

Abhimanyu now spoke, worriedly, "Bellatrix, please, don't do this, you won't be any better than him! Stop it for me at least, please."

Bellatrix looked at Hewson, and then slowly, showing acknowledgement but not the least sign of remorse, lifted her wand and stopped torturing Hewson.

Suddenly, they heard Cygnus shouting, "Stop them!"

"Run!" Abhimanyu yelled.

Bellatrix took one look at him and took his hand.

Even as Voldemort suddenly let out a shout of anger, Abhimanyu and Bellatrix began to fight their way through the crowd of those who opposed them, towards the doorway, out of the hall.

Even as they exited the hall and reached the front door, Andromeda, who was standing on the staircase some distance away, with Narcissa right behind her with a painful expression, whispered, "Go Bella, go!"

And then, even as she and Narcissa ran upstairs, Abhimanyu and Bellatrix ran outside and down the street, right up to where the black car belonging to Ginger Hebblethwaite stood with its engine purring.